Artem Andriyovych Fedetskyi (; born 26 April 1985) is a former Ukrainian

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Biography

Fedetskyi was born in a mining city of

Novovolynsk Novovolynsk (, ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city in Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. Novovolynsk, together with the rural settlement of Blahodatne, Volyn Oblast, Blahodatne and six villages, is incorporated into Novovolynsk urban hromada. Population: ...

, near the border with

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, in a footballer family. He finished his 10th grade of high school in

Lutsk Lutsk (, ; see #Names and etymology, below for other names) is a city on the Styr River in northwestern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of Volyn Oblast and the administrative center of Lutsk Raion within the oblast. Lutsk has a populati ...

, and to graduate he was forced to end his final year in

Donetsk Donetsk ( , ; ; ), formerly known as Aleksandrovka, Yuzivka (or Hughesovka), Stalin, and Stalino, is an industrial city in eastern Ukraine located on the Kalmius River in Donetsk Oblast, which is currently occupied by Russia as the capita ...

due to his transfer to the Shakhtar football academy. Later Fedetskyi graduated from the Lutsk Institute of Human Development with a degree in marketing. In 2018 he defended his dissertation at Volyn University on the subject "Methods of training football students using information models" and received the academic degree of Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences.

Sports career

Fedetskyi was a pupil of the

Volyn Lutsk FC Volyn Lutsk ( ) was a Ukrainian association football, football club based in Lutsk. Since its establishment in 1960, the club became the only major (professional) football club within Volyn Oblast and uncontested leader of football in the reg ...

sports school. When he was 8, his father signed him up for football section in the local sports school.Артем Федецкий: "Приехав в Донецк, так захотелось домой, что чуть не расплакался"
www.ua-football.com. 27 May 2011 His first coach was Andriy Fedetskyi. In the Ukrainian Youth Football League he played for Shakhtar Donetsk. Also, early in his career Fedetskyi played for the amateur club ENKO Lutsk in the local Volyn Regional Football League. Fedetskyi started his professional football career in

for Shakhtar. His first professional match took place on 15 September 2002 when Shakhtar-3 was hosting Stal-2 Alchevsk at Shakhtar Stadium in

Makiivka Makiivka (, ), formerly Dmytriivsk () until 1931, is an industrial city in Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine, located east from Donetsk. The two cities are practically a conurbation. It has a population of It hosts the administration of Makiivka ...

. Fedetskyi came out on substitution at the end of the match, by which time Shakhtar was already ahead of Stal. He replaced Dmytro Kononchenko at the 87th minute. Fedetskyi remained with Shakhtar until 2006 without playing a single match for the first squad and staying with reserves where for a short while he was wearing the captain's band. In 2007 he was loaned to Arsenal Kyiv. With Arsenal Fedetskyi made his debut in the

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on 4 March 2007 when Arsenal was visiting

Chornomorets Odesa FC Chornomorets Odesa ( ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Odesa, Ukraine. According to the club's website, it was formed in 1936 as ''Dynamo'', but until 2002 it carried a logo with 1958 and 19592007–08 season he moved to play for

FC Kharkiv FC Kharkiv () was a professional football club based in Kharkiv, Ukraine. After 2009–10 Ukrainian First League season the club was relegated to the Ukrainian Second League. However, they failed attestation when they submitted falsified documen ...

. Before going on loan to Kharkiv, the new owner Vadim Rabinovich wanted to buy off Fedetskyi contract, but Shakhtar was agreeing only on loan. To Kharkiv, Fedetskyi went with Oleh Karamushka. While playing for Kharkiv, Fedetskyi scored a

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on 6 April 2008 in an away match against Naftovyk Okhtyrka which Kharkiv won 4:1. It so happened that during that match Fedetskyi was placed by Volodymyr Bezsonov closer to attack while experimenting with good position for him. In the 2008–09 season, he played for

FC Shakhtar Donetsk Football Club Shakhtar Donetsk () is a Ukrainian professional Association football, football club that was based in the city of Donetsk until 2014 when, due to the War in Donbas (2014–2022), War in Donbas, the club was forced to move to Lvi ...

, returning to Shakhtar from in the 2008 summer transfer season. He barely played any games with 5 matches in UPL, 3 matches in

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(early stages), and a single match in

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. He also scored once in a home match against

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as part of league competitions. Fedetskyi, nonetheless, was still honored as a member of the Shakhtar's winning squad in UEFA Cup and given a state award. For the three seasons Fedetskyi was loaned out to Karpaty Lviv where he received a regular playtime. The offer came from

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. As a Karpaty player, he also finally made a debut for the

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. In 2010 he also scored his first goals at the continental club's competitions,

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, on 22 July 2010 in home match against

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. In 2012 Fedetskyi was transferred out to

FC Dnipro Football Club Dnipro (, ) was a Ukrainian football club based in Dnipro. The club played its last season in the 2018–19 Ukrainian Amateur League. The club was owned by Ukrainian businessman Ihor Kolomoyskyi. In 2018, FC Dnipro was forced ...

where he spent another 4 seasons. In 2015 with Dnipro he reached the

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where the club lost to

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. Following the

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Dnipro was barred from European competitions for refusing to pay on its contracts due to situation with the club's owner (

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) and the

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in general. In 2016 Fedetskyi signed with the German

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that recently returned to

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(after 33 year break) and was struggling to stay at the top tier. With only 7 wins, Darmstadt placed dead last in the

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and Fedetskyi played in less than half of the matches for the club's senior squad. After the season, he returned to Ukraine signing with Karpaty. Being 32 years of age, Fedetskyi signed a two-year contract with Karpaty and stayed with them for the next couple of seasons before retiring from professional football. Starting from February 2018 and until 2019 he served as the team's captain of senior squad on a regular basis. In 2019 he almost did not play recording only one match in the UPL and the two-leg relegation play-off. In 2019 one of Muscovite clubs offered him a contract with a salary of €2 million per year, but Fedetskyi declined. One of Russian sports reporters Vasily Utkin commented that Fedetskyi was lying about his 2 million euros contract offer. For the 2020–21 season Fedetskyi signed with amateur club Votrans Lutsk. In August 2023, it was announced that Fedetskyi would play for FC Kovel in Ukrainian Amateur Cup.Федецький зіграє за аматорський футбольний центр Ковель
sportarena.com. 26 August 2023 FC Kovel was eliminated by FC Trostianets in the first round by a significant margin, and Fedetskyi was not on the club's team roster for both matches of the two-leg play-off.

International

International goals

:''Scores and results list Ukraine's goal tally first.''

Honors

After playing a home match on Sunday, 17 August 2008, against rivals

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which Shaktar tied 2:2, Fedetskiy was named by UA-Football as the best right midfielder of the fifth round in the Ukrainian Premier League. He also scored one goal against Galatasaray SK and after that goal Karpaty reached UEFA Europe League Group Stage. FC Shakhtar Donetsk *

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(1):

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(1): runner-up 2008–09 FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk *

(1): runner-up

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(1): runner-up 2013–14

Political career

Fedetskyi ran in the July

2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 21 July 2019. Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October, the elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolved parli ...

in electoral district 118,

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. As a non-partisan candidate he was running from the party

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. The seat was won by Halyna Vasylchenko.

Filmography

As extras along with

Artem Milevskyi Artem Volodymyrovych Milevskyi (also transliterated Milevskyy, , ; born 12 January 1985) is a Ukrainian former professional footballer who played as a second striker. Milevskyi is known both for his technical ability and physicality which all ...

, Fedetskyi appeared in the 2023 Ukrainian film " Dovbush" by

Oles Sanin Oles Hennadiyovych Sanin (; born July 30, 1972, in Kamin-Kashyrskyi) is a Ukrainian film director, actor, cinematographer, producer, musician and sculptor. An Honored Artist of Ukraine (2014); he was also awarded the Alexander Dovzhenko Ukraini ...

Personal life

His father Andriy Fedetskyi was also a football player. Fedetskyi is married and has a son, Adrian (2009). Artem Fedetskyi acknowledged that the one who helped him to adapt in Shakhtar was

Anatoliy Tymoshchuk Anatoliy Oleksandrovych Tymoshchuk ( , ; born 30 March 1979) is a Ukrainian association football, football coach and former midfielder. Since 2017, he has served as an assistant coach of the Russian Premier League club FC Zenit Saint Petersburg ...

. In 2021 in interview to some Ukrainian internet media, Fedetskyi expressed his thought that Tymoshchuk is being overcriticized in Ukraine as well as the

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.Федецкий: Тимощук — патриот Украины. Его работа в «Зените» — это личная история
www.championat.com. 30 March 2021

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